Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-06


of souls who are the subjects Of revivals
Throw ali overheard because they are
brought into the kingdom Of God through
great revivals, because there is peck o.
chaf, quarl of chat, pint of chat!
say, let them stay until the last day; the
I Lord will divide the chat from the
wheat.
Do not be afraid Of a great revival.
Oh, that these gales from heaven might
sweep through all our churches! Oh, fol
such days as Richard Baxter saw in Eng
land and Robert McCheyne saw in Dun
dee Oh, for such days as Jonathan Ed.
wards saw in Northampton L have CT
ten heard my father tell of the fact tn"
IN the early part of this century u
vivsI broke out at Somerville, N, j., and
some people were very much agitated
about 1t. They said; "Oh, you are 60
ing to bring too many people into the
church at once;" snd they sent down to
New Brunswick to get John Livingston
to stop the revival,
Well, there was no better soul in all
the world than John Livingston. He
went and looked at the revival; they
wanted him to stop it. He stood in the
pulpit on the Sabbath, and looked over
! Il6 SOlcLlu duu nc 5hLN' 1u4Sj
brethren, is in reality
TIE WORK OF GOD;
beware how you try to stop it," And he
was an old man, leaning heavily on his
staff-a very old man. And he lifted that
staff, and took hold of the small end of
the staff, and began to let it fall very
slowly through, between the finger and
the thumb, and he said: ooh, thou impen-
iteDt; thou art falling now-fslllng away
from life, falling away from peace and
heaven, falling as certainly as that cane
is falling through my hsnd-falling Ger
taiuly, though perhaps falling slowly"
And the cane kept on falling through
John Livingston's hand. The religious
emotion in the audience was overpower-
ing, and men saw type of their doom,
as the cane kept falling and falling, until
the knob of the cane struck Mr.. Living
ston's hand, and he clssped it stoutly and
said: "But the grace OF God can stop you,
as | stopped that cane?" and then there
was gladness all through the house at the
fact of pardon and peace and salvation.
"Well," said the people after the service,
81 guess you had better send Livingston
home; he is making the revival worse"
On, for the gales from heaven, and Christ
on board the ship! The danger Of the
Church of God is not in revivals.
Again my subject impresses me with
the fact that Jesus was God and man in
the same being. Here he is in the back
part of the boat. Oh, how tired he locks;
what sad dreams he must have! Look at
his countenance; He must be thinking of
the cross to come. Look at Him, He
is man-bOne OF our bones, flesh of
our flesh. Tired, He falls asleep; He is
a man. But when l find Christ at the
Prov of the boat; 1 hear Him say
"Peace, be still;" and see the storm
kneeling at his feet, and the tempests
folding their wings in his presence; He is
& God.
III have sorrow and trouble, and want
sympathy, go and
KNEEL DOWN
at the back part of the boat, and say
go, Christ! weary one of Genesaret,
sympathize with all my sorrows, man of
Nazareth, man of the cross" A man, a
man But if l want to conquer my spir-
itual foes, if l want to get the victory
over sin, death, and hell, come to the
front of the boat, and / kneeI down, and
l say: so, Lord Jesus Christ, Thou VINO
UOsl uuSA GuC LCIlpCSIj AuC4 al my sllOl
hush all my temptation, hush al my sim"
man, man; a God, God.
l learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush tempest.
It did seem as if everything must 90 to
ruin. The disciples mad given up the
idea of managing the ship; the crew were
entirely demoralized; yet Christ rises,
and He puts His foot on the storm, and it
go
can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble Perhaps it was
the little child taken away from you-the
sweetest child of the household, the one
who asked the most curious questions,
and stood around you with the greatest
fondness, and the spade cut down through
your bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an
only son, and your heart has ever since
been like desolated castle, the owls Of
the night hooting among the fallen arches
end the crumbling StairWays.
Perhaps it was an aged mother You
always went to her with your troubles.
She was in your home to welcome your
children into life, and when they died
she was there to pity you; that old hand
will do you no more kindness; that white
lock of hair you put away III the casbet,
or N the locket, didn't look as it usually
did when she brushed it away from her
wrinkled brow in the home circle or in
the country church. Or your property
gone, you said: 81 have so much bank
stock, have so many government secu-
rites, have so many houses, have so
many FARMS
ALL GONE, ALL GONE.
Why, sir, all the storms that ever
trampIed their thunders, all the ship
wrecks have not been worse than this to
you. Yet you have not been completely
overthrown. Why? Christ hushed the
tempest. Your little one was taken
away. Christ says: 81 have that little
one in my keeping. l can care for him as
we'll as you can, better than you can, o
bereaved mother!" flushing the tenn
dest. When your property went away
God said "There are treasures in
heaven, in banks that never break"
Jesus hushing the tempest.
There is one storm into which we Will
all have to run. The moment when we
let 60 of this life, and try to take hold of
the next, we will want all the grace pos
sible. Yonder l see Christian soul
rocking on the surges of death; all the
powers of darkness seem let out against
that soul-the swirling wave, the thunder
Of the sky, the shrek of the
wind, all seem to unite